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Special offer. Schumann: Konzertstück for four horns
RecommendedMarkus Maskuniitty (horn), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
The playing of Maskuniitty and his three colleagues is simply superb, with exemplary balance between them and the thrilling arpeggio swoops in the last movement. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2019, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Concerto
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Special offer. Outi Tarkiainen: The Earth, Spring's Daughter & Saivo
RecommendedVirpi Räisänen (mezzo-soprano), Jukka Perko (soprano saxophone), Lapland Chamber Orchestra, John Storgårds
The Finn depicts her country’s landscape in this concerto, presenting the instrument in eerie new light. It’s paired with a haunting song cycle that utilises every force of the orchestra. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The extensive conceptual and technical challenges are negotiated with deceptive ease by the choir...this album presents a powerfully compelling, stunningly sung, hour of immersive listening... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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The strengths of this performance immediately leap out in the warm, sinuous opening to Fountains of Rome, with elegant, sensuous woodwind solos and, at the opening of the second movement, in... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Čiurlionis: The Sea; In the Forest; Kestutis
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Modestas Pitrėnas
The Lithuanian composer's atmospheric depictions of landscape here rival those of Sibelius and Mahler for imaginative orchestration; there are whispers of the latter’s First Symphony and Wagner’s... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2020
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the Rachmaninov of Latvia's outstanding professional choir presents a golden mean between the uniquely open-throated but not always pitch-perfect Glinka Choir of the hallowed St Petersburg tradition,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2013, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Choral
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Rautavaara: Modificata, Towards the Horizon & Incantations
RecommendedWorld Première Recordings
Truls Mørk (cello), Colin Currie (percussion)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
A late and lush harvest of works by octogenarian Einojuhani Rautavaara continues apace. Here we have eagerly awaited documentation of his two latest neo-Romantic concertos, in beautifully recorded... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2012, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Contemporary
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Vogt strikes a fine balance between lyricism and brilliance, teasing out meaning through ebb and flow, relishing the tenderness of the slow movements yet without excessively loosening the corsets... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Solo Music
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Special offer. Rautavaara: Kaivos (The Mine)
Hannu Niemelä (Simon), Johanna RusanenKartano (Ira), Jorma Hynninen (Commissar) Jaakko Kortekangas (Priest), Mati Turi (Marko), Petri Pussila (Vanha) & Tuomas Katajala (A miner)
Kaivos Chorus & Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
The Mine of the title is a microcosm of both society and the individual soul - and its inhabitants are cast from strength. The great Jorma Hynninen is in untarnished voice as the dictator figure,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Brahms & Berg: Violin Concertos
Christian Tetzlaff, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati
In his booklet notes, the violinist Christian Tetzlaff points out that he has out that he has played these two central pillars of the concerto repertoire literally hundreds of times, and his... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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